Bible Study What does it mean to be born of God?

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What does it mean to be born of God?

Jesus said that if you are NOT BORN of God you will NOT inherit His Kingdom no matter if you pretend to be a Christian or not...That is why all Muslims and many Christians will get to hell!

Our God Jesus said: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? John 3:3,4.

It means if you are NOT born of God, you are in fact not a Christian at all.

The term born of God is found primarily in John 3 and the book of 1 John. First John 5:1 says, “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.” Other references are found in 1 John 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; and 5:4, 18.

If anyone is in Christ, he is a “new creature.” He abandons sins/lovers to OBEY Jesus and live in righteousness... to WALK with God Jesus.

When we are born of God, we have a new heart, one that wants to please God (Ezekiel 36:26; 2 Corinthians 5:9; Colossians 1:10).

Our God Jesus tells you:
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

 

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You are Born Again of the Spirit. You can see Spiritual matters. It is not just what you see with you physical eyes, but deeper.

 

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Jesus said that if you are NOT BORN of God you will NOT inherit His Kingdom no matter if you pretend to be a Christian or not...That is why all Muslims and many Christians will get to hell!



Our God Jesus said: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? John 3:3,4.


It means if you are NOT born of God, you are are in fact not a Christian at all.

Catholic Church is full of such nominal "christians" who are NOT born of God. They do NOT inherit the Kingdom of God. They are in fact sinners and unbelievers!


How to be Born of God?

Jesus explains it again:

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:6



A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them Ezekiel 36:26-27.


But as many as received him (our God Jesus), to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12,13



ON BEING BORN AGAIN, JOHN 3: 1-7


"Unless you are born again, you are not saved. How do you know you have been born again?"


"Be born again" - The word translated here "again" means also "from above" i.e. born of God.


7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4


Love to people is an evidence of regeneration made by God!


To be "born of God" we need to repent and abandon our sins TURNING from them and confessing them to God in prayers. Those who have pleasure in unrighteousness will perish!

That is why the Son of God says that we should be "born of water" which is a symbol of baptism i.e. repentance.


Except a man be born of water in repentance and of God, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.


Having a new love for the truth of the Word of God and people and a new understanding can be indications that one is in faith.


Whoever has been born of God does not sin i.e. he does NOT live and continue in sin! Killers are NOT killers anymore! They ABANDON crimes!

If you are a sexual immoral person and you want to be BORN of God then REPENT and ABANDON your sexual immorality (porn/lovers/sex). Otherwise you deceive yourself thinking that you are a Christian but in fact you are a sinner.


9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 1John 3


10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

 

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If you are BORN of God then God is your Father and you are His child. If you BORN of Him then you have to practice RIGHTEOUSNESS!


How should Christians, who are BORN of God, live?


17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 1 John 3


My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but IN DEED and in truth.


Now he who KEEPS His (GOD's) commandments ABIDES in Him, and He (GOD) in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.


If we LOVE one another, God ABIDES in us, and His love has been perfected in us.


Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have BOLDNESS in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.


Are you LIKE GOD in this world? God is LOVE!


If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this COMMANDMENT (to fulfill) we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 1 John 4.

KEEP this COMMAND implementing it!


Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is BORN of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves HIM who is begotten of Him. 1 John 5


And everyone who loves Him who begot also loves HIM (i.e.Christians) who is begotten of Him!


By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and KEEP His commandments.


We know that whoever is born of God does NOT sin; but he who has been born of God KEEPS himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.


So, to HAVE eternal life we need:

(1) Believe in the Son of God.


And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 1 John 5


(2) To be baptized in water, abandoning our sins and promising God our good conscience, as a symbol and act of repentance.


(3) We need to live a GODLY/HOLY life KEEPING i.e. IMPLEMENTING commands of God and LOVING people in action...in DEED.


13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, BE HOLY yourselves also in all your behavior;

16 because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." 1 Peter 1


This is what you call "Christianity". This is the way to the Kingdom of God. That should be your REGENERATION to be a SON of God BORN of God.

Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.


Are you BORN of God or of devil?


In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 1 John 3


Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us (CHRISTIANS), that we should be called children of God!


We are CHILDREN of God!

Return to God you- backsliding CHILDREN of God! Repent and God will RESTORE you!

 

[Chopper]

It's two births. One is when you come into this world thru the birth process with your mother. The other is a spiritual birth where you believe the account of Jesus dying so that your sins can be wiped out in order for you to have a personal relationship with the heavenly Father and become His child.

 

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Right. Do not forget that repentance is needed for it too...

 

[Karl]

Right. Do not forget that repentance is needed for it too...

We were saved by grace, through faith, and that faith was not in/from us, but given to us by God to believe, not by works lest any man boast. Eph 2:8, 9

If repentance is needed too, then that is a work, so either repentance is evidence of a regenerated spirit and not a work, ...or Eph 2:8, 9 is wrong.

You have some good points as to the need of being born again, may I humbly suggest you study 1 Pet 1:23-25 to understand how we are born again, ...it's Peter's testimony.

 

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Acts 17:30 ESV
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent

Acts 2:38 ESV
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 7:9-11 ESV
As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

James 2:14-26 ESV
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? (NKJV)
22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
James 2